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Tag Name "Literature" (1687)

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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
Lionel Trilling
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Literature is news that stays news.
Ezra Pound
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
Ezra Pound
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Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of the world.
Louise Rosenblatt
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Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
Leland Ryken
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Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.
F. R. Leavis
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
Salman Rushdie
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Literature + Illness = Illness
Roberto Bolano
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Literature is about telling stories.
Amos Oz
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Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers.
Roberto Bolano
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Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead.
Amos Oz
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Thornton Wilder
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Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it.
Roland Barthes
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Literature is the memory of humanity.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.
Terry Eagleton
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Literature can no longer be either Mimesis or Mathesis but merely Semiosis, the adventure of what is impossible to language, in a word: Text (it is wrong to say that the notion of 'text' repeats the notion of 'literature': literature represents a finite world, the text figures the infinite of language).
Roland Barthes
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Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.
Timothy Findley
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Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.
Romain Gary
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Literature has nothing to do with usefulness the most useful place in any house is the toilet.
Theophile Gautier
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Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function.
Italo Calvino
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Literature is about getting in touch. It sounds so hippie, but it really is about sharing stuff. We are a community that doesn't seem to be important for the rest of society, but we are people who want to get in touch - really in touch. We want to be thinking together.
Alejandro Zambra
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
Alain de Botton
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